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Danwei Noon Report
Illegal powerPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, August 17, 2006 11:12 AM
August 17, 2006 - Danwei Noon Report, a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China, from Chinese and English sources. Illegal power plants
On July 21 Li Yinhe, a sociologist and well-known expert on sex and gender (who proposed for a third time this year that gay marriage be legalized in China), presented a talk in Nanjing in which she reportedly discussed everything from one-night stands to incest. Nanjing's Jinling Evening News ran what most now agree was a news report with a negative spin on July 23, and suggested Li had said in her talk that she had a "desire for multiple romantic relationships" (Li later told Y Weekend her words had been taken out of context, that she was expressing not a personal wish but rather a hope for social diversity)...
Liu Jianhui, a censorship official at SARFT, said: “SARFT has established a quite advanced Internet audio-visual monitoring centre and plans to set up monitoring centres in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong. Connected with each province, a timely, effective monitoring system will be formed (link)." Is that just bluster? For a Chinese journalist's take on this story, have a look at Wang Xiaofeng's essay, translated on Danwei yesterday (link). The Wall Street Journal has an article on it which quotes Youtube clone Uusee.com business development director Wan Zhihua: "No one knows what the regulation will be like". Another view point from the article, which your correspondent agrees with: Analyst Duncan Clark, of telecommunications-research firm BDA China Ltd., said the potential regulations may be part of a turf battle between different parts of the government. Sarft, which typically controls TV and film, may be trying "to extend offline controls to online media," he said (link - subscription required) Xinhua has republished a China Daily article about the SARFT moves here, which does actually quote some critical voices. But it ends off with a hilarious quote that appears to be written without irony: Internet reactions were mixed: a netizen called Geshoumojie wrote on his blog that such a rule is unnecessary. Stay away from Youtube kids. Go watch some healthy prime time TV!
Programming directors at the station are currently drafting up a new schedule for September, which should be released in the next few days, said Lin Lan, an official with Toonmax TV. Ah me. |
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Comments on Illegal power
I wonder what temperatures the govt. is reporting?
Remember the old law stating that workers could go home if temperatures soared above something like (don't quote me) 94F? The only catch was that for some reason it never got hotter than 93F.
I wonder if that still applies?
So what does this mean for the Power Puff Girls? They getting pulled from Shanghai, or what?